Style

Status: This is an official style guideline.

Getting started

1. Quickstart
2. Style principle
   1. Artist intent
3. Adding a new release
4. Old style practices

Detailed guidelines

1. Titles
   1. Abbreviations
   2. Extra title information
   3. Subtitles
   4. Multiple titles
   5. Split releases
   6. Series numbers
   7. Part numbers
   8. Volume numbers
   9. Featured artists
   10. OC ReMix series
   11. Promo Only series
2. Artist
   1. Artist with multiple names
   2. Sortname
   3. Aliases
3. Release group
4. Release
5. Recording
6. Relationships
   1. URLs
      1. Cover art whitelist
      2. Lyrics whitelist
      3. Score whitelist
      4. What not to link to
   2. Don't make relationship clusters
7. Unknown and untitled
   1. Special Purpose Artist
   2. Special Purpose Label
   3. Special Purpose Track Title
8. Specific types of releases
   1. Opera
   2. Musical Theatre
   3. Live bootlegs
9. Miscellaneous

Language specific guidelines

1. Overview
   1. English guidelines
   2. guidelines for transliterations
   3. Catalan
   4. Chinese
   5. Czech
   6. Danish
   7. Dutch and Frisian
   8. Estonian
   9. Finnish
   10. French
   11. German
   12. Greek
   13. Hebrew
   14. Hungarian
   15. Italian
   16. Latin
   17. Latvian
   18. Lithuanian
   19. Norwegian
   20. Polish
   21. Portuguese
   22. Romanian
   23. Russian
   24. Slovak
   25. Spanish
   26. Swedish (proposed)
   27. Turkish
   28. Vietnamese
   29. Yiddish